The cd is great. There are still a few songs that are a little silly and "poppy," but this should be expected - it's David Crowder. The album is called Remedy, which is appropriate because I could use a good remedy right now, as I have come down with a head cold over the last few days. So, as of right now, I am on Sudafed, Dayquil, Airborn, multi-vitamins, vitamin C, and Good Earth tea. I will take anything and everything that will make me feel better. I'm sure you can relate. Got any other ideas?
On a more serious note, the concept of the cd is amazing, and I have been thinking about it since last week when I first put it on my not-so-reliable ipod (it has a tendency to erase all my music when it gets angry at me). The 10-tracks all follow this theme:
"Where there is pain, let us bring grace. Where there is suffering, bring serinity. for those afraid, let us be brave. Where there is misery, let us bring relief. Let us be the remedy."
According to wiktionary, a remedy is "something that corrects or counteracts." As a Christian, I know that Christ was the ultimate rememdy, corrects and counteracting the sin that corrupts mankind. He is my ultimate remedy. If Christ lives inside of me and I am submissive and obediant to him, then I also can be the remedy to those who live without God. I hate to use the Christian phrase "Jesus with skin on" because it honestly kinda creeps me out, but that is what I am - Sent by him to help finish his work in a world that is so void of his love and far from the way God intended it to be. The symptoms of our emptiness are clear (and I still have some of them!): parties, drinking, drugs, crime, violence, poverty, injustice, pessimism/negativity, an emotional need for relationships, trust in money or a good salary for security, ambition, pain, pride, hunger, and the list goes on...
The fact that the disease of sin and emptiness is such an epidemic in our world should not discourage us, but instead lift us up and bring us closer to God. We are the Remedy!!! Oswald Chambers wrote this, "To walk in the light means that everything in the darkness drives me closer to the light." It makes sense, right?
All of this reminds of a movie I recently saw called "I am Legend." You've heard of it...Will Smith is the last human left in New York, a city were a virus has overtaken mankind making them into violent vampire-like creatures. They live in the darkness. He spends day after day trying to find a remedy to this disease, so that he can save these creatures that want to kill him. Does he find it? Well, I won't ruin the film if you haven't seen it. But the point is that his character is bold, courageous, and selfless because of the great task he has taken upon himself to save these ex-humans. He is not their savior, but his actions are heroic and admirable.
Whose remedy do you need to be today?
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In a world so rich with Big Macs and Caramel Frappacinos, so rich with pleasure-seekers... in a world so filled with contention and war and corruption---- it's pleasant to know that there are those very faint lights... you know, those lights that only a few can see in the darkness, like the stars at night, you can only see them out in the countryside or when eveyone shuts off the electricity.
Those lights symbolize hope. And hope is the very thing this world holds on to so dearly. A world without hope would be like an earth without water.... it not only keeps us alive, it's sort of this respirator allowing us to endure any evils that might stand in our way of essentially saving the world.
I usually never acknowledge how Jesus is the sun that wakes me up in morning. He's the little day to day things that go unnoticed, like the cotton candy colored sky, like when I hold the door for someone and they say "Thank-You". Or when a total stranger offers you a cough drop when you are sick.He is the hope, the light and the remedy.
Ok.. sorry for rambling on like this, but hopefully you get what I'm saying.
You're very insightful and your words are simple but powerful.
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